How To Avoid 'Choking' on the SAT

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Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:43:43 +0000

Do LOTS of practice. The more practice you do, the more confident you’ll feel on test day. Let’s face it–you’ll do worse on the real SAT than during a practice exam. If you can score 2300+ (hopefully 2400) with limited time (i.e. take off 5 minutes per section), you will have no problem scoring 2300+ on test day.

You won’t be at your best on test day. You may feel like you failed. All the practice makes you good enough that your “failure” is still good enough for 2300+.

EDIT: I just want to make clear that you will choke on test day, without a doubt. The practice just makes it so that you can still achieve 2300+ even if you seriously choke.